Great Commission Initiative Training
is Coming to South Carolina!
You’ve heard about the Great Awakenings. You are hearing about the Church Planting Movements around the world. Now you can be part of a Missional Movement in America!
"Our mission is to facilitate global church planting movements ( Multiplication Movements) by equipping church planters, pastors, lay leaders and missions strategists with the most current missiological thinking and best practices. We accomplish our mission by bringing together laypersons, pastors, ministers of missions, associational and denominational strategists as learning communities of 15-25 people. They learn first from successful, frontline practitioners who are serving in the world’s church planting “hot spots.” Then, as our GCI learning communities gain their own expertise, they learn from one another."
Our training takes 8-12 months to complete and requires participation in all three phases. Each phase includes a 3 1/2 day meeting, with field assignments in between meetings.
We have just added a fourth, optional, phase, available without any pre-requisites. Called Story Evangelism, this phase teaches the learner how to listen actively to verbal and non-verbal communication, and then to select and share appropriate Bible stories to help the person find Christ. A short description of each phase of training is below:
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Phase 1
Biblical Foundations
Defining Your Reality
Missiological Principles
Recent Developments in Mission Practice
Segmenting People Groups
Engaging the People Groups Around You
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Phase2
Essentials of Church Planting Movements
Worldview, Bridges and Barriers to the Gospels
Discipleship Models that Work
Developing a Master Strategy Plan
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Phase 3
When Your Best Exposition Isn't Good Enough
Selecting the Bible Stories to Teach
Crafting Bible Stories for Effective Teaching
The Literacy-Orality Continuum
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Story Evangelism
How to Listen to a Person's Personal Story
Getting the Story Behind the Story
Understanding Non-Verbal Communication
Selecting a Bible Story to Help a Person Find Christ
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The South Carolina Great Commission Initiative is co-sponsored by the South Carolina Baptist Convention and SC Baptist Associations
September 21-24
at the Baptist Conference Center at White Oak
The cost per person is $175.00 plus Room and Board
(Commuters must be able to stay until 8:30 each evening)
Limited Seating
Reserve Your Space
Discounts for Early Registration
For More Information and to Register go to:
www.pantataethne.org
